a boy stood on a weighting machine and noted that it showed 54kg. Is 54 kg his mass or weight.

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54 kg is the mass of the boy.
If is written 54 kg wt. then it is the weight of the boy. If we want to convert the kg wt. into Newton we must multiply the mass by g which is equal to 9.8 ms^-2. Weight here will mean the force experienced by the boy of 54 kg kept on earth’s surface.

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a boy stood on a weighting machine and noted that it showed 54kg. Is 54 kg his mass or weight.

54 kg is the mass of the boy.If is written 54 kg wt. then it is the weight of the boy. If we want to convert the kg wt. into Newton we must multiply the mass by g which is equal to 9.8 ms-2. Weight here will mean the force experienced by the boy of 54 kg kept on earth’s surface.

54 kg is the mass of the boy.
If is written 54 kg wt. then it is the weight of the boy. If we want to convert the kg wt. into Newton we must multiply the mass by g which is equal to 9.8 ms^-2. Weight here will mean the force experienced by the boy of 54 kg kept on earth’s surface.